( Berry 9 Great Prices For Strawberry Quarts
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Prices for strawberries vary
throughout the season, but
George Kratzert’s payment of
$3OO for a quart spiked the high
side.
“l wanted good quality berries
to serve strawberry sundaes in
my restaurant (Scoops Ice Cream
and Grill, Mountville) and to
Jillian Fletcher sells her berries to Andrew Appel for
$2OO. Josiah Rohrer sells his for $BO to Richard Herr of
Herr Manufacturing.
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help out the kids,” Kratzert said
of his reason for giving the top
bid at the Lancaster County 4-H
Rotary Roundup.
Grower of the prize-winning
berries was Mark Lefever, Quar
ryville, who was one of 53 4-H
participants in the annual event.
Rotary members pay top dollar
to the entrepreneurs, who range
in age from 8-18, in order to “af
firm young people and their com
mitment to hard work and busi-
ro
u
ness ventures.”
More 4-H’ers participated .in
strawberry projects than ever be
fore, according to Katina Show
man, county 4-H agent.
Mark isn’t revealing the secret
for growing prize-winning ber
ries. He said, “It’s a secret, I can’t
tell.”
But the 11-year-old did say
that he has 100 plants of three
different varieties. He entered
Earliglow because they taste
sweeter.
The son of Wayne and Janice
Lefever put the $3OO in savings
for a car.
Competition was divided into
three categories. Nineteen first
year members presented well
kept project books recording
time, effort, and expense. In the
first-year division were 25 entries,
and 11 4-H’ers qualified for the
experienced category with two or
more years as an exhibitor.
“The bad part is that you don’t
get any berries the first year of
growing,” Jillian Fletcher said.
Those first year blossoms must be
picked off and discarded to en
sure a better yield the following
year.
Jillian did all the work of pre
paring the patch, weeding, water
ing, and pampering 25 plants last
year without any enumeration.
But this year, it paid off. The
12-vear-old received $2OO for a
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quart of berries from Andrew
Appel, a lawyer.
Her secret: “Don’t have bun
nies.” She explained that her
friend Megan Parsons grew ber
ries, but wild rabbits devoured
them, and Megan had none to
enter in the competition.
Jillian, daughter of Michelle
and Dean Fletcher, said her
neighborhood has many dogs
whose barking and chasing keep
rabbits away.
“But my dog loves eating
strawberries,” Jillian said.
Fortunately, her dog doesn’t
raid the berry batch, but waits for
Jillian to pick them and serve
them to him.
Jillian’s mother attributed the
size and flavor of the berries to
the compost used in the berry
patch. “It’s organic and we made
it ourselves,” she said.
Although this was the first
year, Jillian entered, she had an
older brother and sister who pre
viously competed, and her mom
is the 4-H leader for the Mount
ville 4-H Berry Club.
Kenton Bucher received $lOO
for showing the reserve champion
berries in the experienced divi
sion. Some of his five brothers
and a sister previously placed in
the top two placings. Kenton, son
of Kenneth and Evie Bucher,
said that he has SO plants on the
familv’s Manheim farm.
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Wayne Kratzert paid
$3OO for this box of straw
berries. With them, he
served strawberry sundaes
at Scoops Ice Cream and
Grill, Mountvilie. Kenton
Bucher received $lOO for
showing the reserve ber
ries in the experienced cat
egory.
“Sometimes I get tired of pick
ing berries,” Kenton said. It’s no
wonder. He picked from 5 a.m.-
8:30 a.m. the morning of the
competition.
Josiah Rohrer, 11, placed sec
ond in the first exhibitor catego
ry. The son of Kevin and Audrey
Rohrer, Manheim, sold his ber
ries to Herr Manufacturing for
$BO.
Judges for the berry and proj
ect book competition were Rudy
Grove, Lew Middleton, and Ger
ald Groff. Auctioneer was Harold
Keller, Mount Joy.
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